Chess

Online game analysis

• http://en.lichess.org/paste

Excellent. Very fast. Easy to browse, play variation, etc.

Computer

All platforms

• Shredder

On Windows

• Rybka (windows) (best chess engine as of 2010 along with Rybka)
• Houdini (windows) (best chess engine as of 2010 along with Rybka)
• Fritz (windows)
• ChessMaster (windows) (en) (best seller)

On Linux

• Crafty (linux)

Computer ratings:

• See wikipedia page on Chess engines

History

• Kasparov versus the World

Theory

• Chess-End Game

Computer-based Analysis

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame_tablebase

Problems

• Chess Problem Database

Tips & Pits

• (Frequent mistake) In start position, b2 and g2 are only protected resp. by Bc1 and Bf1 → move these Bishops only if these pawns are not threatened / protected by other pieces!